New research has revealed that MasterChef is the most popular reality TV show in the world, gaining 2.4 million average monthly searches for the show.

The study by CasinoGuide analysed current reality TV shows to see which one had the highest amount of web searches per month with MasterChef, Love Island, and The Voice topping the list as top three most popular reality TV shows.

Out of all shows studied, reality cooking TV show MasterChef takes the crown as the world’s most popular reality show. Hitting British TV screens in 1990, MasterChef has become one of the world’s biggest TV shows adapting to more than 40 different countries such as Australia, the United States, Brazil, and China. Various spin-off versions of the show have also been introduced over the past years such as MasterChef: The Professionals, Celebrity MasterChef, and Junior MasterChef. Gaining 2.4 million global web searches, MasterChef is the world’s favourite reality show.

The second on the list is dating game show, Love Island. Love Island’s first show aired in the UK for two series in 2005, later returning to ITV2 in 2015. Love Island has also been launched in 13 different countries such as the U.S. and Australia, becoming the second most popular reality TV show in the world and gaining 1,980,000 average web searches per month.

The Voice is the third most popular reality TV show, with 1,110,000 monthly web searches on average. The Voice is an international reality TV singing competition, starting as ‘The Voice of Holland’ in the Netherlands, then adapting across the world to the UK, U.S, China, and 142 other countries/regions and versions such as ‘The Voice Kids’, ‘The Voice Teens’ and The Voice Senior’.

The fourth and fifth most popular reality TV shows are also singing reality TV shows. ‘The Masked Singer’ and ‘American Idol’.

‘The Masked Singer’, originated from South Korea’s version of the show, ‘The King of Mask Singer’ and earns a monthly average of 1,110,000 web searches. The musical show, featuring anonymous celebrity guests disguised in full body costumes aired in recent years in the U.S (2019) and U.K (2020), with the show airing in 31 countries in total.

U.S singing competition, ‘American Idol’ earns 734,000 average web searches per month and has been one of America’s top music reality shows since it launched back in 2002, later becoming the most viewed American TV show in 2004.

‘The Bachelorette’ ranks sixth as the world’s most popular reality TV show. Airing in 2003 the American dating game show is a spin-off of ‘The Bachelor’, gaining 711,000 average monthly web searches.

Dating TV series ‘Too Hot to Handle’ hit screens in 2020 after being released on the world’s #1 streaming TV service, Netflix. The show achieves 595,000 average web searches per month, making it the 7th most searched reality TV show in the world.

Strictly Come Dancing is eighth and Married at First Sight comes in as ninth most popular reality TV show. Gaining 578,000 monthly searches for the British dancing show, and 499,000 for the social experimental show, Married at First Sight.

Gaining 447,000 monthly web searches and the last one on the list out of ten is Keeping Up with The Kardashians, an American reality TV show based on the famous Kardashian-Jenner family’s lives which premiered on E! in 2007. The family announced in 2020 that the show would end in 2021, however, KUWTK fans were recently informed that the Kardashian family are set to return to TV screens earlier than expected, with new show ‘The Kardashians’ expected to debut in 2022, after the family signed a major multi-year deal with Hulu.

A spokesperson for CasinoGuide commented “Reality TV is a staple of modern day culture with the genre having its own dedicated and loyal fanbase, whose viewership allows shows to run for decades. This data highlights that MasterChef is a prime example of this, being the most searched reality show after being on air for 32 years!

“It’s also interesting to see that the top sub-genres of reality television are music and romance, with four shows being singing and dancing competitions and three being dating programmes – signifying that the reality category has found a winning formula for appealing television.”